New Battery Tech Could Kill Two Major Decarbonization Challenges With One Stone

oilprice.com ^ | May 27, 2024 | Haley Zaremba

[Red Badger]

>A clean energy company accidentally discovered a technology using iron-air batteries that could decarbonize the steel industry.

>Form Energy's battery purifies iron ore for steelmaking with a low-emission process, potentially replacing high-polluting coking coal.

>This innovation could significantly reduce emissions across various industries that rely on steel.

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While the global clean energy transition is well underway, there are still some unsolved technical hurdles standing between our current energy industry and our ability to meet global climate goals by mid-century. Most of the more obvious and accessible items on the decarbonization to-do list – pushing electric vehicle adoption, installing solar and wind farms, and making our homes and appliances more energy efficient, for example – are already being tackled at a wide scale around the globe. But other key platforms of a pathway to net zero rely on as-yet unproven technologies.

Two of these tricky problems are the issue of finding a scalable long-term energy storage solution to enable reliance on a 100% renewable energy mix without compromising energy security, and decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy-duty trucking, shipping, aviation, iron and steel, and chemicals and petrochemicals. Unlocking the secret to solving these sticky issues has the potential to disrupt the clean energy industry as we know it and put us on track for carbon neutrality, as well as to create new economic sectors with massive potential for rapid growth. Now, here comes the amazing part. In the process of trying to solve the riddle of long-term energy storage, a green battery company accidentally discovered a solution to one of the other key wicked problems facing the decarbonization movement – cleaning up the iron and steel industry. In a stunning development, Form Energy is using its innovative battery technology to solve two completely disparate problems plaguing the global energy industry.

[butlerweave]

The word “Could” is there so no way

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That is an information-free article. But the author explains the process for us: “The battery stores clean energy by converting rust into pure iron, and feeds it back into the grid by turning that iron back into rust.”

[Red Badger]

That is not a new idea.

It has been considered as a possible power source for a Martian Colony at some future date.............

[Yo-Yo]

The word “Could” is there so no way

"All we need is a couple of billion dollars..."

[ro_dreaming]

While the global clean energy transition is well underway,

And that folks is why the world economy, and the US in particular, has been in the shitter for the past 3 years. One year (or so) before that was because the DemoKKKrat liberal elite shut the world down for their release pandemic.